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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2981497.stm

Egads, that's tiny! This reminds me of the mobile phone disc system that Philips made a show of a few months back, you could make your mobile into a PDA with decent memory for once to play even long video files.

About time floppies were retired and ZIP drives etc. given a run for their money.

They should have flushed the floppy a looooooooong time ago,cool new gadget.

I've got one of them, great for transfering things back and forth from Uni.

These things have been out for awhile , though they aren't strictly disk drives (being solid-state and all). Useful little things, really.

phongn wrote:These things have been out for awhile , though they aren't strictly disk drives (being solid-state and all). Useful little things, really.

Yeah, serves me right for copying the article title, I was thinking along the lines of those tiny Philips disc drives too.

The best is yet to come...

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993664

My friend has a 1GB USB keychain drive. It is so useful. Im going to buy a 256MB model when I get some extra cash. It is really usefull for carrying around a set of common drivers, patches, etc.

I have a 256 MB pen shaped one. Don't leave home without it.

phongn wrote:These things have been out for awhile , though they aren't strictly disk drives (being solid-state and all). Useful little things, really.

Ahhh, solid-state memories . . . great stuff. The ability, if I so chose, to store a gigabyte of stuff on my PDA . . . priceless.

I've got a 128MB one from Nexdisk. Quite handy, although you need to be paranoid about losing it. I lost mine about three weeks ago, and my dad found it out in the backyard, before mowing over it. It sat in the rainy Washington weather for that entire time.
I let it dry in my room for two days (the case is glued together, so I couldn't open it up to assist drying), plugged it in, and it worked just fine.

I'd like to have a 1GB model, but I couldn't justify spending that kinda money. Now if only they could be made to work as transparantly as floppy drives...

I have a nice 128mb one. Its good for grabbing patches etc that you just can't on dial-up.

Colonel Olrik wrote:I have a 256 MB pen shaped one. Don't leave home without it.

Is it USB?

Shadowhawk wrote:I've got a 128MB one from Nexdisk. Quite handy, although you need to be paranoid about losing it. I lost mine about three weeks ago,

That's why I only got a 32mb one. I'm not that fussed about losing it.

I've found this nice one here, 64mb apacer handy drive.

His Divine Shadow wrote:

Colonel Olrik wrote:I have a 256 MB pen shaped one. Don't leave home without it.

Is it USB?

They'd be pretty crappy if they weren't I should imagine.

I'm considering getting a 32MB one if I can find a good cheap one in town or on DABS.com, I don't really need floppies or anything but it would be useful just in case.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:They'd be pretty crappy if they weren't I should imagine.

I'm considering getting a 32MB one if I can find a good cheap one in town or on DABS.com, I don't really need floppies or anything but it would be useful just in case.

Creative Lab's MuVo MP3 player uses a very small USB storage device. I wish they'd sell the storage component of that thing separately.

And bah, FireWire owns puny USB

phongn wrote:

Admiral Valdemar wrote:They'd be pretty crappy if they weren't I should imagine.

I'm considering getting a 32MB one if I can find a good cheap one in town or on DABS.com, I don't really need floppies or anything but it would be useful just in case.

Creative Lab's MuVo MP3 player uses a very small USB storage device. I wish they'd sell the storage component of that thing separately.

And bah, FireWire owns puny USB

Until FireWall is in my PC and more common, USB 0wns.

Any ideas for a cheap key ring drive between 32 and 128MB?

Sweet merciful crap. I want one.

Works on linux too... too bad I can't afford one.